Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi 'at death's door'

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has been found apparently comatose in a palatial villa in north Tripoli.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is slipping in and out of a coma and only being kept alive with oxygen and an intravenous drip, according to relatives attending him at the property, which they said had been ransacked by looters who plundered all his medicine.

Megrahi, last seen at a televised rally in Tripoli last month alongside Muammar Gaddafi, was tracked down by CNN international correspondent Nic Robertson."He appears to be a shell of the man that he was, far sicker than he appeared before … at death's door," Robertson said.

Megrahi's son, Khaled, told the broadcaster: "There is no doctor, there is nobody to ask and we don't have a phone line to call anybody."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/29/lockerbie-bomber-al-megrahi-coma

[AnnieBW]

1. I hope that he's in terrible pain

Bastard.

[Azathoth]

2. Someone ought to help him over the threshold. n/t

[DesertFlower]

11. no. let him suffer.

[digitaln3rd]

3. He lasted long than the people he murdered

Too bad his victims didn't get to live lime he did. Don't feel sorry for him one bit.

[LeftyMom]

4. Hope it hurts.

When my loving, sensitive late grandmother saw the wreckage of that airplane on television when she sat down to her morning ritual of toast, tea and the Today show, she cried for those poor people she never knew in a place she'd never been. I guess it scared her, thinking about their last moments. She cancelled her flight home and spent the remaining years of her life traveling the country by trains and buses. Happily it turns out she loved meeting people and stopping in small towns up close, but when he killed all those people, he scared the hell out of countless more, and some of them probably didn't travel anymore. He reduced the happiness and sense of safety of people he never, ever thought of.

[TheDebbieDee]

5. Yeah, yeah. Sure, sure.

[1620rock]

6. Well, if there is a Hell, the gates are yawning open for him.

[SoapBox]

7. ...so die already.

Dirt bag.

[dkf]

8. I'm not sure I believe this.

[McCamy Taylor]

9. He's not suffering. He's in a coma. His family is suffering watching him. Glad to see DUers

are so full of sympathy for the plight of people who, through no fault of their own, are related to a mass murderer who is dying. Maybe one of them is his mom. Maybe some of the people posting above me would like to tell her "Fuck you for giving birth to him, you whore." That will make the dead rest easier I am sure.

[Lil Missy]

10. I don't believe this. n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

12. The odds are very good that Megrahi didn't do it

see here in the London Review of Books, a well-known human rights lawyer; and here, a Member of the Scottish Parliament in the Independent, commenting on the evidence in the case (which points to Iran as the culprit, in retaliation for the USS Vincennes shooting down an Iranian airliner full of pilgrims on their way to Mecca.

[dipsydoodle]

13. See here too

http://www.defraudingamerica.com/lockerbie_index.html

The last thing the US government would've wanted or could have afforded was for his appeal to proceed.

[era veteran]

14. Murdering bastard

Kid killing son of a bitch. Scotland fucked this up.

[pinboy3niner]

15. Dr. who lost daughter in Lockberbie bombing says Megrahi should be allowed dignified death

The Guardian's live blog cites a Press Agency report on Dr. Jim Swire, who said:

I feel in view of all he's been through that he should have been accorded a peaceful end in Tripoli with his family. The idea of extraditing him is a monstrous one.

Dr. Swire said he would be willing to care for al-Megrahi, if that could be arranged.

"The families of other victims said they feared their chances of discovering the truth behind the bombing would die with Megrahi," The Guardian reports.


More details at link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2011/aug/29/libya-rebels-hunt-gaddafi-sirte-live-updates#block-7

[closeupready]

20. If victim family's are allowed to pass sentences, then ask EVERYONE's family, not just those with

whom you agree.

[pinboy3niner]

23. I can't tell whom you're addressing...

...the Guardian, Press Agency, or me. But no opinion was offered either agreeing or disagreeing with the opinions expressed by either of the two family members cited. It's simply a news item on some of the reactions expressed by some victims' family members at a time when people are interested in how they feel and what they have to say about developments.

[closeupready]

24. Okay. I've seen this talking point before in support of the notion that Megrahi deserves lenience,

and while that wasn't necessarily the point from anyone other than the quoted family member, I was raising my counterpoint in response. FWIW.

[jzodda]

16. He deserves to suffer

I was just reading about flight 103 the other day unrelated to all of this and it sickens me.

[ret5hd]

18. did you read the part that says he probably didn't do it?

[closeupready]

21. Is that part before or AFTER the part where he was convicted?

??

[ret5hd]

22. after

[theHandpuppet]

17. I only wish that his "deaths' door" was at 35,000 feet

And someone could give him a push.

[closeupready]

19. AGAIN?!

:eyes:

[Nihil]

25. Oh what a lovely bunch ...

... of hateful ignorant DUers.

Not interested in the truth (even though it's been pointed out time after time).

Not interested in justice (i.e., investigating the actual criminals after the
patsy was cleared).

Not interested in questioning your puppet-masters, your "leaders" and your
"defenders of freedom".

Just a redneck lynch mob, screaming and getting hard with thoughts of "vengeance" ...

"Team America Fuck Yeah!"

:eyes:

[sudopod]

26. Let's ask the Supreme Court!

"Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached." - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

:/

Yeah, it's pretty messed up

[Nihil]

27. I'd forgotten that one!

> Yeah, it's pretty messed up

I award you today's "Master of Understatement" award! :-)